Benjamin Franklin

Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor…

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one…

You may delay, but time will not…

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody…

Hunger is the best pickle…

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory…

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man…

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good…

A good conscience is a continual Christmas…

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing…

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands…

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom…

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one…

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information…

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges…